...winter recess to accommodate the new holidays, while still maintaining the required 180 instructional days.
"New York is a melting pot, and our children will grow up to become global citizens. It can only enrich their e...

...ted by thousands of Hindu, Jain, and Sikhs in NYC, is beyond disappointing,” Sheetal Shah, senior director of the Hindu American Foundation, said in a statement Wednesday. “These communities are a vibrant and integral pa...

...d October in Loudon County in Virginia, police have documented 17 separate incidents of anti-Hindu vandalism, the Hindu American Foundation said.
In a twist to the Kent incident, an Islamic organization tried to deflect...

...that were widely regarded as free and fair," said Samir Kalra, director and senior fellow for Human Rights at the Hindu American Foundation.
"We look forward to working with representatives of the new government to stre...

...nment sanctioned sectarian prayers,â said Harsh Voruganti of the Hindu American Foundation.
Greece town of New York state started the practice of opening its board meetings with prayers about 15 years ago.
The town d...

...on, impeding the free exercise of religion.
Minority religious groups voiced their opposition to the ruling. The Hindu American Foundation (HAF), an advocacy organisation for the Hindu-American community, said its leade...

...ices have voted on First Amendment issues.
(The study, which was released Friday, was first reported by The New York Times.)
The upshot: The conservative justices tend to side with conservative causes; the liberals w...

...er in support of Diwali as a public school holiday in New York City. (Getty Images)
A coalition of almost 40 New York City organizations and temples urged Mayor Bill de Blasio to include Diwali alongside the new propose...

...alition of secular and faith-based groups to recognize Diwali - which Hindus, Jains, and Sikhs observe - as a New York public school holiday demonstrates the progress made to integrate diverse views. The same sort of rec...

... the U.S. through CA Assembly Bill 1964, speaking out against the unconstitutional surveillance of mosques in New York, pushing for immigration reform and gun control, and pushing for the inclusion of hate crime reportin...

... with an intimate gathering designed to carve out time from our busy lives to be with those closest to us,â New York-based Varli Singh, founder of the Varli brand, told News India Times. Itâs equally important for th...

...rian quagmire is assured.
Joseph Loconte, PhD, is an associate professor of history at the King's College in New York City and the author of Gospel of Liberty: John Locke and the Struggle for Religious Freedom (Lexingto...

...pers were killed at a Gurdwara in August last year. In December, a woman pushed a Hindu man to his death on a New York City subway track, and then told police, "I hate Hindus and Muslims ever since 2001." Statistics on t...

...pers were killed at a Gurdwara in August last year. In December, a woman pushed a Hindu man to his death on a New York City subway track, and then told police, “I hate Hindus and Muslims ever since 2001.” Statistics on t...

...pers were killed at a Gurdwara in August last year. In December, a woman pushed a Hindu man to his death on a New York City subway track, and then told police, "I hate Hindus and Muslims ever since 2001." Statistics on t...

...North American Punjabi Association said in a statement. The day after the Boston Marathon bombing, leaders of the Hindu American Foundation expressed profound sadness at the deadly two bomb attack. "As a lifelong residen...

...t years as couples seek to publicly mark weddings, engagements, and anniversaries in a permanent way. Besides New York, "love locks" can be found on public monuments and bridges in Venice, St. Petersburg and Paris amongs...

... “I think it instills confidence to say there’s been a Hindu there,” said Suhag Shukla, executive director of the Hindu American Foundation in Washington. It’s also an opportunity to introduce Hinduism as a faith to peop...

...able in any society” said Suhag Shukla, executive director and legal counsel for the Washington headquartered Hindu American Foundation (HAF), reports PTI. “We need the department of justice (DOJ) to have a separate Hind...

... the death of Sunande Sen, an Indian man, who was shoved to his death in front of an oncoming subway train in New York last week, Indian Americans have asked the department of justice and FBI to separately track hate cri...

...ting suspicious activity to the proper local law enforcement authorities. The campaign was originally used by New York’s Metropolitan Transportation Authority (MTA), which has licensed the use of the slogan to DHS for an...

...ives of those four men. The rest of the evening belonged to two HAF fulltime staffers, Sheetal Shah, based in New York and Samir Kalra, based in the Bay Area in California who showed a new HAF promotional video that outl...

...s very personal, and that it should not be commercialized." "It wasn't about yoga, it was about Bikram yoga" (The Hindu American Foundation (HAF) has weighed in on the debate as well. The organization launched an awa...

...ose injured, including the veteran police officer, who showed considerable bravery to protect the community.” The Hindu American Foundation (HAF) called up on all Americans to join Sikhs in mourning, also try to learn th...